Eric agreed to be hypmotized. He doesn't want to do the interview. Big difference. And Nicole approached him under the guise of friendship, when she really just wanted the scoop. Her motives weren't right. She absolutely deserved to be yelled at by Eric.

I didn't see Nicole holding out an olive branch of friendship. I saw a woman pose a proposition. It was/is his right to turn it down if he wants. There's no argument about that.

I'm responding to the supposition made that she shouldn't have even considered doing the interview considering that "she's a part of the story." I countered with the fact that Marlena is Eric's mother, therefore, wasn't an objective doctor when he needed hypnosis. Same thing with Roman and Hope: they're relatives who shouldn't be investigating at all if we're going off what should and should not happen in this town.